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One's own affairs; one's private business. [Obs.] Shak.

In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface. Knight.

Having shaggy hair. Shak.

amond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone. Diamond solitaires blazing on his breast and wrists. Mrs. R. H. Davis.

In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.

-- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only. "I a winding stair found." Chaucer's Dream. Below stairs, in the basement or lower part of a house, where the servants are. -- Flight of stairs, the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story. -- Pair of stairs, a set or flight of stairs.…

A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc. To make a complete staircase is a curious piece of architecture. Sir H. Wotton. Staircase shell. (Zoöl.) (a) Any scalaria, or wentletrap. (b) Any species of Solarium, or perspective shell.

The head or top of a staircase.

A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. "A rude and narrow stairway." Moore.

Same as Tayra.

See Tarn. Coleridge.

A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.

Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial. [Obs.]

The basement or cellar.

To deprive of fairness or beauty. [R.] Shak.

To deprive of hair, or of hairs; as, to unhair hides for leather. I 'll unhair thy head. Shak.

That can not be impaired. Hakewill.

Not paired; not suited or matched. And minds unpaired had better think alone. Crabbe.

Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

ldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue. Fairholt. No vair or ermine decked his garment. Sir W. Scott. Counter vair (Her.), a fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.